In a Jan. 17 interview with CNN host Piers Morgan, Harvey Weinstein vows to stop producing violent films, according to CNN.

Weinstein, head of The Weinstein Company, tells Morgan that he plans to veer away from egregious gun violence in future projects. The interview airs one day after Weinstein announced plans to produce a film that challenges the ideology and actions of the National Rifle Association. Actress Meryl Streep is slated to star.

His change of heart comes after the gun-rights organization issued a statement critical of the producer’s present stance on gun issues when contrasted with his past work producing violent films.

“Well, I think they have a point. You have to look in the mirror, too,” he tells Morgan. “And I know for me personally I can’t continue to do that [produce violent films].”

Weinstein has a long working relationship with director Quentin Tarantino, renowned for writing and directing excessively violent films. Weinstein produced Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” which follows two hit men, “Inglorious Basterds,” which follows a gang of soldiers tasked with “killing nazis” and “Django Unchained,” a revenge film set during the Civil War, among others.

The producer’s new vow comes with a catch. “I’m not going to make some crazy action movie just to blow up people, and exploit people,” he says. But he will make films that honor war heroes, as in the recent Weinstein-Company-release “Lone Survivor.”

“The change starts here, it has already,” he says.

The interview airs Jan. 17 on CNN at 9 p.m. EST.